WordPress Query Optimization and Best Practices

Developing a new plugin or the greatest theme ever!? You’ll never know what your userbase will be installing your product on and can only hope they will be using fast servers or caching plugins but… maybe not.

This talk will quickly cover “The Loop” and how developers get posts / pages to use during this loop to ensure everyone is familiar with how WordPress works. Then we will jump into some lesser known query parameters to help speed up and optimize your queries. Finally we will take a look at query caching and general caching practices using WordPress functions.

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